Not too long ago, Beaumont Health System Trustee Herb Tyner had a life-threatening
heart condition which resulted in a cardiac bypass and subsequent heart procedure.
The Tyners were so grateful to Beaumont and their cardiovascular surgeon,
Dr. Marc Sakwa, for the care that Herb received, they wanted to make a gift —
one that would truly make a difference.
Their legacy is the 6,300 square-foot Suzanne & Herbert Tyner Center for
Cardiovascular Intervention that is currently under construction. The center
will exemplify the Tyners’ exceptional generosity for generations to come.

Doctors’ Day /
Calendar of Events

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11
News in Brief
12
Your Gift at Work /
Grants and Corporate Gifts

The Houghs Give Generously for
Young People and Their Families

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Dear Friends of Beaumont Health System,
I hope this issue of Healthy Giving finds you well and enjoying
the end of summer.
As we reflect on the first half of 2012, we continue to appreciate the
extraordinary generosity of our donors. Your gifts allow us to buy
equipment, create new treatment centers, research funds, and endowed
programs. Most importantly, they represent the positive impact that
charitable giving has on patient care and our ability to realize the
Beaumont health care mission.
You, as a friend of Beaumont, understand the true meaning of philanthropy
and its lasting effect. Without your continued support, we could not provide
the world-class services that so many patients expect from us.
In this issue, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pleased to acknowledge Suzanne and Herbert Tyner
as well as Bonnie and David Hough. Their extraordinarily generous
gifts will create the Suzanne and Herbert Tyner Center for Cardiovascular
Interventions and the Hough Center for Adolescent Health.
We are also highlighting the celebration of the Oakland University William
Beaumont School of Medicine completing its first academic year.
On behalf of the Foundation and Beaumont Health System, I extend
my deepest gratitude for your continued support.
With warmest regards,

Margaret Cooney Casey
President, Beaumont Foundation

“We wanted to show our gratitude
to Dr. Sakwa and give back to
Beaumont for everything that was
done to save my life,”

– Herb Tyner

Suzanne & Herbert Tyner Center for Cardiovascular Interventions

The Tyner Legacy
The Tyner legacy is the 6,300-square-foot Suzanne &
Herbert Tyner Center for Cardiovascular Interventions
currently under construction in Royal Oak.
The center is part of a long-range plan that will benefit
not only the patients in our communities, but also patients
from across the country and around the world — setting
the standards that others can only hope to achieve.
The center’s primary focus is a hybrid operating room
that will connect the existing catheterization labs and
operating rooms. Melding the operative suite and cath
labs will result in a space that allows surgical and
catheter-based procedures to be performed in the same
setting. Adjacent to the hybrid operating room will be a
glass observation room. Stadium seating will be available
for medical students, residents, fellows, attending and
technical staff to view procedures in real-time without
disrupting the sterile integrity of the operative suite.
“We wanted to show our gratitude to Dr. Sakwa and give
back to Beaumont for everything that was done to save
my life,” said Herb Tyner. “Beaumont is a first-class institution
and we wanted to make it possible for them to help others
who have heart conditions.”
The innovative training and educational sessions held in
the center will also have the capability of being broadcast
to locations around the world via teleconferencing.
This will particularly enhance cardiovascular health care
in remote regions where access to this leading-edge
technology is limited.

Beaumont doctors have an
international reputation for
pioneering groundbreaking
research in the use of pacemakers,
angioplasty and stenting. They
have also introduced the use of
highly sophisticated CT and MRI
technology to revolutionize the
practice of cardiovascular medicine
by facilitating faster and more
accurate diagnoses of heart and
Marc Sakwa, MD
vascular diseases. The Suzanne &
Herbert Tyner Center for Cardiovascular
Interventions will provide a dedicated space that will
offer opportunities to take research and innovation to
the next level in structural and valvular heart repair.
“The gift from Suzanne and Herb Tyner is enabling Beaumont
to be among the best in this specialty,” said Dr. Sakwa,
chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Beaumont, Royal Oak.
“The greatest benefit of their gift is for our patients,”
Dr. Sakwa added.
Your contribution can help Heart & Vascular Services at Beaumont
Health System. Please give online at foundation.beaumont.edu or
call 248.551.5330 to discuss your gift today.

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In the past several years, three
exceptional donor families have
made significant gifts of $100,000
each to establish endowed funds
that promote nursing excellence
and education.

Mark Kolins, MD, Maria Abrahamsen, Angela and Dr. Jay Gibbs

Gifts Advance Nursing Education
and Excellence
In the past several years, three exceptional donor families have
made significant gifts of $100,000 each to establish endowed
funds that promote nursing excellence and education.
In 2007, Dr. Mark Kolins, health system chair, Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine, and chief of Clinical Pathology
at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and his wife Maria
Abrahamsen made a gift to establish The Len & Roz Kolins
Nursing Excellence Award at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.
This award honors the memory of Dr. Kolins’ parents and
provides an annual award to nurses who are nominated
by their managers for the superior manner in which they
provide bedside care to patients.
Since its inception, the Kolins Award has provided support
for five Royal Oak nurses to attend the educational conference
of their choice. This year’s award was presented to Angela
Gibbs, RN, BSN, who practices on the 7 North Surgical Unit,
at a ceremony during Nurses’ Week.
In 2008, the family of Phyllis E. Edwards, a 30-year pediatric
nurse and pediatric nurse manager at Henry Ford Wyandotte
Hospital, decided to honor her memory by creating The
Phyllis E. Edwards Endowed Nursing Scholarship Award.
The gift was funded by her husband Thomas Edwards,
her parents Thelma and Ray Sohn Sr., her sister Janet Bush
and husband Dr. Edward Bush, and her brother Ray Sohn Jr.
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This fund has awarded five scholarships to young people
who are committed to pursuing a career in pediatric
nursing. This year, the family presented two scholarships,
one to Brooklynn Dow, a second-year student at the University
of Detroit Mercy School of Nursing, and Elizabeth England,
a fourth-year student at Wayne State University School
of Nursing.
A third endowment was made possible through the kindness
of Maggie Allesee and supports continuing education of
Beaumont nurses. This gift reflects Maggie’s life-long
commitment to supporting higher education. The Maggie
Allesee Nursing Scholarship Award allows practicing nurses
at Beaumont to continue their education by earning their
bachelor’s or master’s degree in nursing and related health
care fields. This year, Maggie personally presented three
awards to Beaumont nurses: Jillene Sheipline, RN, BSN;
Sarah Hernandez, RN, BSN; and Vicki Speyer, RN, BSN.
All are enrolled in graduate degree programs.
Beaumont is deeply grateful for what these generous
donors’ gifts will mean to advancing nursing excellence
and education, and for the impact these gifts will ultimately
have on patient care.
Your contribution can also help nursing education at Beaumont
Health System. Please give online at foundation.beaumont.edu
or call 248.551.5330 to discuss your gift today.

“This program has grown because the Houghs
have supported it with such commitment.
As a family, they have saved lives and restored
optimism to so many patients and parents.
It is a wonderful legacy.”

– Kathleen Mammel, MD

David and Bonnie Hough

A Gift to Young People and Their Families
It is fitting that family plays such an integral role in the care
adolescents receive at The Hough Center for Eating Disorders.
The center itself was created as a way for one family to honor
the memory of its matriarch, Nancy Rambeau Hough, who
was a long-time supporter of children’s programs.
Gifts from Nancy’s husband, the late Richard T. Hough, and
their son and daughter-in-law David and Bonnie Hough
brought the center to life in 2007. Of his mother, David said,
she “was a total dynamo. Virtually everyone who knew my
mother experienced her as truly an amazing human being.”
Now, that same dynamism is seen each day in the efforts of
The Hough Center staff as they work to help young women
and men overcome anorexia, bulimia and other forms of eating
disorders. To date, more than 500 young people have found
renewed health and hope through the center’s treatments
and overcome these potentially life-threatening diseases.
“To watch parents find their role as coaches and, at the same
time, see adolescents become empowered to overcome their
illness is deeply gratifying,” said Dr. Kathleen Mammel, director,
Adolescent Medicine at Beaumont, Royal Oak and director
of the Hough Center for Eating Disorders.
The Hough Center is the only eating disorder program in
the state to focus exclusively on helping teens and children.
Nationwide, 95 percent of individuals with eating disorders are
between the ages of 16 and 26 while up to 40 percent of newly
identified anorexia cases are seen in girls ages 15 to 19 years
old. Early intervention is key in achieving successful outcomes
and returning young patients to healthy relationships with

food, exercise and weight. The
family-based method also helps
restore the often broken or strained
relationships between children,
parents and siblings, laying a
positive foundation for long-term
recovery and success.
David and Bonnie Hough recently
made an additional very generous
gift commitment to expand the
program which will be renamed The
Hough Center for Adolescent Health.

Kathleen Mammel, MD

“With their most recent gift, the Houghs have added to an
already extraordinary legacy at Beaumont. Their generosity
and dedication to young people has made it possible for the
physicians and caregivers at The Hough Center to do more
than ever before to help those affected by eating disorders,”
said Margaret Cooney Casey, president, Beaumont Foundation.
“This program has grown because the Houghs have supported
it with such commitment,” said Dr. Mammel. “As a family, they
have saved lives and restored optimism to so many patients
and parents. It is a wonderful legacy.”
Your contribution can help The Hough Center at Beaumont Health
System. Please give online at foundation.beaumont.edu or call
248.551.5330 to discuss your gift today.

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Event Host Committee

Gene Michalski, Gary Russi

Oakland University William Beaumont
School of Medicine – One Year and Beyond
Beaumont Health System and Oakland University hosted
an event on the evening of April 26th, to celebrate the
completion of the first academic year of the Oakland
University William Beaumont School of Medicine. The
group of nearly 300 health system and university leaders,
community members, and students from the charter class
was at the Troy Marriott for an informational evening to
help raise awareness of the successes of the inaugural year
and the critical need for financial support for the school.
“The School of Medicine is a source of great pride for our
colleagues, alumni and friends,” said Oakland University
President Gary Russi. “We’re excited to be in a partnership
with Beaumont.”
Fifty students were selected to begin classes at the school
of medicine in August 2011. That number will grow to
125 students over the next two years.

Chris Jaeger

Dean Robert Folberg

Beaumont Health System President and CEO Gene Michalski
said, “Beaumont has a 50-year history of training medical
students. Currently, we have more than 700 students on
our campus on any given day. We also have more than
400 residents training in 37 specialties.”

“OUWB students have the opportunity to be trained in one
integrated system. They are also learning from our unique
curriculum, which is system-based with longitudinal threads
that extend through many years of instruction — threads
like promotion and maintenance of health, medical humanities
and bioethics, the art and practice of medicine, and, of
course, our unique approach to Capstone research,” said
Dean Folberg.

According to founding dean Robert Folberg, MD, there
are several reasons why the charter class students chose
to attend a brand new medical school, especially since
so many were accepted at established, legacy schools.

Chris Jaeger, president of the Medical School Government,
elaborated on what makes the OUWB School of
Medicine different than other medical schools from
the student’s perspective.

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Chris Jaeger, Nancy Sussick

David Felten, MD, and Elizabeth White

“It is my intention to tell you the insider’s view,” he said.
“Admissions are different at OUWB. Candidates are admitted
after a holistic review and determining who will make the
best doctor,” Chris said. As a result, “we are a family that
learns together.”
Chris added, “The curriculum is revolutionary, so that students
will become compassionate, competent physicians.” He
spoke of the “Beaumont effect,” which refers to the physician
engagement. Every student has a Beaumont attending
physician and a resident as mentors. This close relationship
contributes to camaraderie and fosters happiness as it
“fuels the fire for personal growth.”
Sharing the student experience, Chris told a story about case
discussions. “At one point on the cardiovascular unit, there
were 11 Beaumont cardiologists present, all participating
in the case discussion. This doesn’t happen in any other
medical school in this state. OUWB School of Medicine
has changed the way that medical students learn.” To
illustrate the commitment to the medical school, there
are 1,500 Beaumont physicians on the faculty at OUWB.
Dean Folberg concluded the evening’s remarks by saying,
“We want physicians who are compassionate, engaged and
great communicators.” He also mentioned that 92 percent
of the charter class has participated in voluntary community

Nick Vitale (center) and medical students

service which translates into 663 hours of work, setting a
standard for others to follow.
The curriculum at OUWB is a new paradigm for medical
education that competitive schools seek to emulate. “Other
medical schools are asking to see our curriculum. We are
trying to create something new. Why create a carbon copy,”
said Dr. Folberg. “The students of this charter class will have
a profound impact on everything that happens thereafter.”
Your contribution can help Oakland University William Beaumont
School of Medicine. Please give online at foundation.beaumont.edu
or call 248.551.5330 to discuss your gift today.

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“You only need so much in life for yourself.
Whatever you don’t truly need, there are
people out there who do need it.”

– Jason Silver

Jason and Ellorie Silver

A Tradition of Generosity
For Jason Silver, giving back has always been part of the
family philosophy. His late father, Lew, “always instilled
a deep sense of the importance of giving,” says Jason.
“He was very charitable. We grew up believing it was what
you were supposed to do if you were able.”
Recently, Jason and his wife Ellorie created the Jason &
Ellorie Silver Neuroscience Rehabilitation Fund in memory
of his father. The fund will provide support for inpatient
rehabilitation at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, including
those individuals affected by stroke. His own father had
suffered a stroke toward the end of his life, motivating
Jason to establish a fund that would help expand rehabilitation
services at Beaumont for those stroke patients coping
with the same physical challenges as his father had.
“We want to make sure that Beaumont has the equipment
and staffing it needs to help those with a rehabilitation need,”
Jason says. “If I can help with that, if I can help hire even one
more therapist to be there for another shift or reach more
patients, then it’s worth it.”
This gift by Jason and Ellorie is very much in keeping with
his parents’ giving philosophy. Despite a busy work schedule,
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Hospice Program, talking with patients about their lives.
His experience as a volunteer led him to launch the
StoryKeepers Program at Beaumont, making it possible
for hospice patients to record their life stories on video
for families, friends and other loved ones. Through a
bequest, Lew Silver provided for the continuation of
the program, ensuring its availability for Beaumont
hospice patients for years to come.
It is a tradition of generosity that Jason plans to continue.
“You only need so much in life for yourself,” he says.
Beyond that, “whatever you don’t truly need, there are
people out there who do need it.”
When it comes to philanthropy, Jason says he is often
reminded of a line from a favorite Jethro Tull song.
“‘It’s only the giving that makes you what you are,’”
he says, quoting it. “I’ve been very lucky to be in the
position I’m in.” And now, he and his wife are continuing
his family’s mission of giving back and sharing that
good fortune with others.
Your contribution can also help Neuroscience Rehabilitation
at Beaumont Health System. Please give online at
foundation.beaumont.edu or call 248.551.5330 to discuss
your gift today.

“We try to emulate them in the way
we give back to our community.”

– Rob Zafarana

Joseph and Olga Zafarana

Giving Back
Before both Joseph and Olga Zafarana passed away from
cancer, they had raised their six children to believe in the
tenets of hard work, family, responsibility and giving generously.
“We try to emulate them in the way we give back to our
community,” said son Rob Zafarana.
Rob and his sister, Pat DeNio, recently visited the 8 South
Oncology Unit at Royal Oak to see the plaque honoring the
generous gift from their parents. When planning their estate,
Joseph and Olga set aside a portion of their estate to benefit
cancer research at Beaumont.
Joseph began his entrepreneurial spirit at a very young age
as exemplified by his appointment to store manager for
Kroger Supermarkets at the age of 16. He spent the next
30 years working directly in the industry before creating
his own supermarket promotional consulting business,
Zafarana Enterprises in 1960.
“We all worked in the business at some time,” said Pat.
Joseph did an excellent job teaching his children the value
of hard work.
Olga’s commitment to volunteering at a local hospital, her
church and charities in the area instilled a sense of obligation
and caring for others in their children. The Zafaranas also
gave generously to poverty programs at several schools in
the area. Olga taught her children the meaning of compassion.
They all volunteer and help where they can.

“Our mother was
so caring. She was
truly a saint,” said
daughter, Pat. “Even
when she was so
sick, she never lost
her ability to care for
others.” Rob agreed
and added, “Our
mother always saw
the good in things.”

Rob Zafarana and Pat DeNio

Although not present, another son, Jim, sent this message,
“The Joseph and Olga Zafarana children are thrilled to see
the Rose Cancer Center at Beaumont benefit from our
parents’ generosity. Throughout their lives, Joe and Olga
modeled service to the community and always modeled
for us the importance of contributing to the advancement
of organizations that can truly, positively impact the
health and well-being of others. We’d like to thank the
professionals at the Beaumont Health System for directly
caring for our parents and hope that this gift will enable
others to experience the best of care as well.”
On behalf of Beaumont Health System, we extend our
gratitude to Olga and Joseph Zafarana for their kindness
and generosity through their estate.
Your planned gift can also help cancer research at Beaumont
Health System. Please call 248.551.9825 and speak to Judith Peters,
associate vice president, Planned Giving, to discuss your gift today.

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WDVD Cares for Kids Radiothon
The annual 96.3 WDVD Cares for Kids
Radiothon took place on April 27, in the
South Tower Concourse of Beaumont,
Royal Oak. Twelve very touching stories
from our Beaumont Children’s Hospital
Miracle Families were shared with the
audience. The 13-hour event raised $125,000 for Beaumont Children’s
Hospital, which will significantly impact more than 50,000 children this
year with lifesaving equipment, specially adapted bikes, pediatric
scholarship support, and specialized programs.

Doctors’ Day 2012
The Annual Giving team is pleased to announce that more than
600 physicians were honored for Doctor’s Day 2012. Each
physician was sent a letter of notification identifying the
supporters who generously made gifts in their honor, along
with the handwritten note cards from their patients. Doctors’
Day is a special day set aside to honor the physicians who
do so much for our patients every day. This year’s appeal raised
almost $82,500 — an increase of 44 percent from last year.

Calendar of Events
For more information about any of the following events, please contact the Beaumont Foundation Special Events Office at 248.551.9596.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012

at 9 a.m. The CMN Torch Relay
is returning to Detroit. The 3-mile
walk will begin along the Detroit
Riverwalk. As the only CMNaffiliated hospital in Southeast
Michigan, every dollar raised at
the event will come directly to
Children’s Miracle Network at
Beaumont Children’s Hospital.
Last year, in partnership with Marriott Hotels, more than
100 walkers raised $19,000. If you have any questions, please
contact Katie Groves at the Beaumont Foundation 248.551.3609
or katie.groves@beaumont.edu.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Oakland Mall.
Photogenic Baby Awards Ceremony. Participating parents
previously had photos taken of their children that were entered
into the Photogenic Baby Contest. The winners will be announced
at the October 14th ceremony at Oakland Mall with proceeds
from the event benefiting Beaumont Children’s Hospital, a proud
partner of Children’s Miracle Network.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 10 a.m. – 12 noon at The
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attend the Beaumont Foundation Women’s Leadership Initiative –
Grosse Pointe Fall 2012 Event. The topic will be “Breast Cancer –
Why Me…Why Not Me?” and the distinguished speaker will be
Dharti Sheth, MD, board-certified general surgeon whose primary
interest is breast disease. Please RSVP by October 17, 2012 to
Kim Ritter at kimberly.ritter@beaumont.edu or 313.473.1077.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 Heart to Heart Event at 6:30 p.m.
at the Andiamo Italia Showroom in Warren. This is the 10th
anniversary celebration of the Ministrelli Women’s Heart Center
with a performance by Regis Philbin and the Johnny Trudell
Orchestra. The 2012 Heart to Heart Committee includes Honorary
Chairs Florine & J. Peter Ministrelli and Event Co-Chairs Harriett
& Sheldon Fuller, Carol Nederlander, Ellen Rogers, Lois & Mark
Shaevsky. Cocktail attire (red is encouraged).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012 from 6:30 – 11 p.m. Costumes for
a Cause at the Somerset Collection, Troy. Join us at Somerset
Collection North Grand Court for a Halloween party benefitting
Beaumont Children’s Hospital, a proud partner of Children’s
Miracle Network. Featuring the Sounds of the Teen Angels, a band
so retro it’s scary. Tickets are $50. For questions, please contact
Katie Groves at 248.551.3609 or katie.groves@beaumont.edu.
For online registration, please visit www.beaumont.edu/foundation
and click “Costumes for a Cause.”

NEWS IN BRIEF
The Breakers in Palm
Beach, Florida was the
site of a small dinner
party on February 12,
for major donors to
Beaumont Health
System. Speakers were
Evan Weiner, Dr. David
Wood and Margaret
Casey. The 33 guests
received an update
Sid Forbes, Dr. Wood and Evan Weiner
about Beaumont and
the plans to establish Centers of Excellence.
On March 24 and 25, with
more than 700 student
dancers who stayed on
their feet for 30 hours, the
Dance Marathon at the
University of Michigan
(DMUM) raised over
$100,000 to benefit the
pediatric rehabilitation
programs at Beaumont
Children’s Hospital.

The annual Grosse Pointe Golf Classic on June 18 at the
Country Club of Detroit raised almost $90,000 for the Level II
Newborn Nursery Project. Chairs of the event are J.C. Collins
and G. John Stevens.
The annual Vattikuti Invitational on June 25 at Oakland Hills
Country Club is chaired by John J. Morad and Jim W. Page.
This year the event raised $325,000 to benefit the Vattikuti
Digital Breast Diagnostic Center at Beaumont Health System
and Henry Ford’s Vattikuti Urology Institute.
Approximately 40 women attended the Women’s Leadership
Initiative Spring Luncheon held on June 27 at the
Birmingham Country Club. Jay Fisher, MD, spoke on Minimally
Invasive Surgery: New Horizons in Surgery for Women.

DMUM

During the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ May
is for Miracles Campaign, more than a dozen Michigan
corporations helped raise awareness and funds for the
Beaumont Children’s Hospital. Thanks to the efforts of
countless supporters and employees of Carmike Cinemas,
Chico’s, Costco Wholesale, Rite Aid, Sam’s Club,
Speedway, Walmart and White House Black Market,
more than $376,000 was raised during the month of May.
On May 31, Ellen
Firestone graciously
opened her home to
more than 30 guests
who gathered to hear
Beaumont breast cancer
surgeon Nayana
Dekhne, MD, speak
on the topic of new
developments in
breast care research,
prevention, treatment,
and survivorship.

The Drive to Beat Breast Cancer – The Dr. John Ingold
Invitational on June 11 at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club
was again co-chaired by Barry Brink and Martha Quay. With
morning and afternoon golf and an evening of bridge and dinner,

The Beaumont
Foundation partnered
with 94.7 WCSX to
create the Stone Soup
Project benefiting the
Children’s Miracle
Network at Beaumont
Children’s Hospital. A
’69 Ford Mustang
one-of-a-kind ’69 Ford
Mustang was built with
help from companies all around the metro Detroit area. More
than $131,000 was raised and the ’69 Ford Mustang now
belongs to the lucky winner John Vecchio from Clinton Township.
August 31 – September 3,
2012. Soft Rock 105.1
partnered with
Beaumont for a
radiothon during
Labor Day weekend
at Arts, Beats & Eats.
Approximately $10,000
was raised to benefit
the Beaumont Children’s
Arts Beats and Eats
Hospital. Seth Gold from
Hard Core Pawn was present for photos and to sign autographs.
September 23, 2012. MPURE Golf Outing at Twin Lakes
Country Club. Chairs Kenneth Peters, MD, Jose Gonzalez, MD,
Ronald Marino, and Jay Hollander, MD, once again hosted this
annual event. This outing raised approximately $40,000 to
benefit the Ministrelli Program for Urology Research and
Education (MPURE).

Your Gift At Work
The following individuals have made generous major gift commitments to Beaumont Health System:
A generous gift from Mary and Jonathan Aaron will benefit
the Neonatal Intensive Care Center at Royal Oak.

Hospice and Heart and Lung Research have received a generous
gift from Joyce S. Lindquist.

The Beaumont Parenting Program and the NoBLE Anti-Bullying
Program have received generous gifts from the Talbert and
Leota Abrams Foundation.

Mary Jane and Paul Naz have made a generous gift to Grosse
Pointe Cardiology.

A generous gift from the Estate of Marvin Danto will support
BioBank research and the Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Scholarship Fund.
A generous gift by Charlene Handleman will support nursing
education and scholarships.
A bequest from Dennis and Michele LaPorte will benefit
the Oncology Hospice Care at Beaumont, Troy.
A bequest from Genevieve and Harry Lichtwardt, MD, will support
the Harry E. Lichtwardt Lectureship in the Department of Urology.

Urology Research has received a generous gift from
Sally and Graham Orley.
The Razzak Foundation has made a generous gift to
Radiation Oncology Research.
A generous gift was received from Jane E. and Larry Sherman
for the Supportive Care Nurses Program.
A generous gift to support patient rehabilitation was received
from Shelley and Joel Tauber.

The following corporations have made major gift commitments to Beaumont Health System:
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation completed a pledge to our
Community and Minority Outreach Program to provide mammograms
and clinical breast exams to underserved populations in Metro Detroit.

The Gerber Foundation awarded a grant to Dr. Martin Espinosa
for research on premedication for non-emergency endotracheal
intubation in the NICU.

Gifts from the Oakland County Bar Foundation have been
instrumental in starting the Legal Aid for Children and Families
Program. This program provides free legal counseling for families
of young patients seen in our pediatric outpatient clinic and babies
born at Royal Oak. This program is the only one of its kind in
Michigan, and the only one in the country to implement educational
food stamp clinics to ensure that needy families are getting
the appropriate amount of food stamps allocated to them.

A grant from Globus will support a spine fellowship in orthopaedics.
A grant from OMeGA will support a shoulder and elbow fellowship
in orthopaedics.

Donations may be made securely online at: foundation.beaumont.edu and click DONATE ONLINE. Or contact the Beaumont Foundation at: 248.551.5330.
Please write to us at the above address if you wish to have your name removed from mailing lists for future fundraising requests to support Beaumont
Health System.